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Sometimes I get caught on camera, too!

Hope she got a good one!

This made me remember way back when I got my first camera-a white and blue Vivitar Spree film camera when I was about 8 years old. I was seriously fascinated by it. I wore that thing out with pictures of my shoes, my cats…anything that would sit still for me. My parents probably hated paying to develop rolls and rolls of film. I fell out of the habit of photography until I got into high school. Since my career as the singer in a ska band wasn’t going to happen (ha-you have to be able to sing to be in a band!), I was kind of looking for a new elective for my junior year. A girl I knew was showing a friend of mine a picture she developed and printed in her photojournalism class. I had no idea they even offered photojournalism in school, and was amazed that she processed the film from start to finish into a black and white print. I signed up for the class the next semester and bought my first major camera, the Canon A2. I went on to become a yearbook photographer in high school, a photography major and BFA graduate from ASU, and a photographer (having switched from film to digital somewhere in between)! All from an interest that was sparked when I was young…

Thanks for reading my rambling!